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Lessons from an oil spill: how BP gained - then lost - our trust

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imageThe 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico marked a new management low for BP.AAP/EPA/Dan Anderson

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is one of the most exhaustively analysed environmental and management crises in recent history. And BP‘s response will probably be remembered for a generation as the perfect...

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